YouTube to shorts
Paste a YouTube link or upload the file, and the AI carves your long video into vertical clips with captions, sized for the Shorts shelf and ready to post to TikTok and Reels without a second edit. Your first video is free.
No card required for your first video.
What it does
A two hour podcast or a forty minute tutorial is not short of good material. It is short of good material that anyone can find. Someone has to watch the whole thing, mark the parts that stand alone, crop each one so the speaker stays in frame when the video turns vertical, and caption it for people watching with the sound off. That is an afternoon per video, every video, which is why most channels never post the clips at all. This does that pass for you. You hand over the link, and what comes back is a set of finished vertical files, each starting on the line that carries the moment rather than four seconds of throat clearing before it.
Paste the YouTube link or upload the file. The AI reads the whole video, picks the segments that stand on their own, reframes each one to 9:16 so the speaker stays in frame, and burns captions in. You download finished vertical clips. No timeline, no keyframes, no export settings. One 30 to 60 minute upload usually yields five to ten clips.
In detail
One 9:16 export covers all three vertical feeds. The other shapes exist for surfaces that crop a tall frame anyway.
| Where it goes | Shape | Why that one |
|---|---|---|
| YouTube Shorts shelf | 9:16 | Plays edge to edge on the shelf; anything wider gets letterboxed. |
| TikTok | 9:16 | The same file as Shorts. No re-export, no reformatting. |
| Instagram Reels tab | 9:16 | The full tall frame plays. This is the default worth picking. |
| Instagram home feed and profile grid | 4:5 or 1:1 | The grid crops tall video, so the subject drifts out of the visible area. |
| Anywhere the original framing matters | 16:9 | Keeps the shot as shot: talks, demos, screen shares. |
The shape is chosen when you start a run and applies to every clip in that batch. If you want two shapes from one video, run it twice.
Figures here are the ongoing price. A new customer's first month of Lite 10 is $7.20, then $12/mo. One per customer, limited time.
Real clips generated from long videos. Captions and vertical reframing done automatically.
How it works
Drop in a YouTube link or the raw file. Long uploads, streams and back catalogue videos give it the most to cut.
The AI reads the full upload, keeps the strongest segments, reframes them vertical, and captions each one.
Download 9:16 files sized for the Shorts shelf, then drop the same clips onto TikTok and Reels with no reformatting.
FAQ
Paste the link or upload the file. It finds the most clippable segments across the upload, cuts them vertical, and burns captions in, ready for the Shorts shelf.
Yes. Every clip is a plain 9:16 MP4, so the same file drops straight onto TikTok and the Reels tab with no reformatting and no second export.
Five to ten from a typical thirty to sixty minute upload, depending on how much of it stands on its own. You choose the number before it runs.
Yes. Old long uploads are ideal source material. Point it at any video on the channel and it turns dormant footage into fresh clips.
Up to ten hours on any paid plan, and thirty minutes on the free tier. One credit covers sixty minutes on Lite 10, two hours on Lite 30, three on Lite 50.
Up to 1080p and no watermark on paid plans, in solo or split screen. The free video renders at 720p with a small watermark.
Usually the cut begins before the moment does. Four seconds of throat clearing reads as nothing happening, and the viewer is gone before the point arrives. Clips here start on the line that carries the moment.
No. The clips come out cut, reframed and captioned. The editor is there if you want a different caption style or crop, but nothing is required.
Paste a YouTube link and see the clips it carves. The first one is on us, no card needed.
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